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    This document provides instructions for students to complete an activity where they: 1) Build a food web by drawing arrows to show the energy flow between organisms in an ecosystem. Students label each organism as a primary producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, or tertiary consumer. 2) Create an energy pyramid by writing the names of organisms from the food web in the correct trophic levels. Students then use the 10% rule to calculate the amount of available energy at each trophic level. 3) Describe how the amount of available energy affects population sizes between different trophic levels.

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    WildCam Gorongosa STUDENT WORKSHEET

    FOOD WEBS ACTIVITY: BUILDING A FOOD WEB


    INTRODUCTION
    In “Food Webs Activity: Building a Food Chain,” you built a food chain and learned how energy flows
    through trophic levels. In this part of the activity, you will complete a food web by modeling the
    energy flow between organisms. You will then model the community relationships in a different way,
    using an energy pyramid.

    PROCEDURE
    Part 1: Complete a Food Web

    You learned in the previous activity that energy from the sun is accumulated by primary producers
    and then flows up trophic levels to each of the consumers in a food chain. In this exercise, you will
    draw arrows in the direction of energy flow within a food web.

    1.   The following page shows the organisms in a food web. Draw arrows in the direction of
    energy flow to connect the different organisms. Multiple arrows can go to and from each
    species. Use the WildCam Gorongosa field guide to research the diet and predators for each
    species: http://www.wildcamgorongosa.org/#/field-guide

    2.   Next to each organism, use the following abbreviations to label it as a primary producer (PP),
    primary consumer (PC), secondary consumer (SC), or tertiary consumer (TC).

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    Lion  

    Serval  

    Raptor  

    Rodent  
    Buffalo  

    Insect  

    Grass   Trees  /  Shrubs  

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    Part 2: Complete an Energy Pyramid

    “Three hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume
    90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.”
    -- G. Tyler Miller, Jr., American Chemist (1971)

    Only a small fraction of the energy available at any trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level.
    That fraction is estimated to be about 10 percent of the available energy. The other 90 percent of the
    energy is needed by organisms at that trophic level for living, growing, and reproducing.
    This relationship is shown in the energy pyramid above. It suggests that for any food chain, the
    primary producer trophic level has the most energy and the top trophic level has the least.

    1.   Write the names of each organism from your food web in the correct level of the pyramid on the
    following page.

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    2.   Assuming that your producer level has 3,500,000 kilocalories of energy/area, use the rule of 10
    percent in energy transfer to calculate the amount of energy available at each consumer level.
    Write those numbers to the right of each trophic level in the pyramid. Show your calculations in
    the space below.

    3.   In one or two sentences, describe how the amount of available energy may affect the population
    sizes of organisms at different trophic levels.

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